Daniel Taub

Hundreds of people gathered for a candlelit vigil outside the Israeli embassy on Wednesday night to express their solidarity with the bereaved families of the three Israeli teenagers who were kidnapped and killed in the West Bank.

Representatives of major communal organisations were present, including the Jewish Leadership Council, the Board of Deputies, UJIA and the Zionist Federation.

Israeli Ambassador to the UK, Daniel Taub gives a JDOV talk (the Jewish world's answer to the popular TED talk series), on the ten objects which represent Israel for him. One of these is a model El Al plane and hilarity for the knowing audience ensues.

The Israeli ambassador Daniel Taub shows he is willing to debate the case for Israel to anyone who listens. The ambassador encountered this Barbary ape during a visit to Gibraltar. Mr Taub also met Jewish leaders and discussed trade with the Minister for Financial Services and Justice Gilbert Licudi. (Photo: Stewart Gross)

The Israeli Ambassador to the UK, Daniel Taub, was formally summoned to the Foreign Office on Monday and told that the UK was “disappointed” by Israel’s decision to plan new homes in the settlements in the West Bank.

The issue of female bishops was not the only controversial motion debated at the Church of England’s General Synod this week. The motion it passed in July, endorsing the partisan Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI) was also discussed.